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The defence attorneys in the Buddy’s fuel trial were given one last opportunity to make submissions after failing to do so two months after the case was adjourned.

Defence counsel for the three former New Building Society (NBS) managers who have been charged in a multi-million dollar fraud case are asking for one preliminary inquiry (PI).

The PNCR says it will support the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill tabled in Parliament by the Alliance For Change (AFC).

The Forest Products Association (FPA) in a flyover media tour in the Essequibo area yesterday compared the damage done by the mining and the logging industries, arguing that logging is friendlier to the environment.

An attack by what is believed to be Africanised bees has resulted in the death of a Mayor and City Council worker who sought refuge in a nearby trench.

A man was killed yesterday after members of the Joint Services went to Bush Nai Nai in the Canje Creek in search of two men they believe may have been involved in the recent armed robbery in which New Amsterdam post office employee Jermaine Forde was shot and killed.

The two persons who have been detained by police in relation to the deadly ambush of a MMC vehicle at the Sheribana Bridge on Monday last are still in custody and just around $2M was stolen.

The Board of Directors of the Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) says that it wholly endorses the appointment of Karan Singh as Managing Director of the company, and intends to work with him on achieving the objectives of GWI as it needs an individual of his calibre at this time to lead the company from its present circumstances.

President Bharrat Jagdeo and Minister of Foreign Trade Dr Henry Jeffrey are expected to join regional counterparts today in Jamaica for what is likely to be a stormy two-day meeting on a regional economic partnership (EPA) with the EU and sugar is expected to take centre stage.

As the jogger who was attacked by two pit bulls early Tuesday morning continues to cry out for pain and numbness in his limbs, the police yesterday took statements from the owner of the animals and the woman who came to his aid.

The New Building Society (NBS) has appointed Ahmad Murtza Khan as its new chief executive officer (CEO).

The University of Guyana (UG) is officially without a Vice Chancellor as the contract of Professor James Rose has come to an end and a substantive replacement has not been found.

It’s final. Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) members have accepted the 8.5% wage increase proposed by Chief Labour Officer Mohamed Akeel on September 26 and agreed to by the Guyana Sugar Corporation.

Industrialised countries demanding that developing ones which suffer from “a chronic lack of resources” bear greater responsibility for preserving the environment through “shared responsibility is clearly unequal and unfair,” Minister of Foreign Affairs Rudy Insanally says.

Even though there have been numerous complaints about the seemingly non-functional 911 number, made mostly by victims of bandit attacks, Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee has said that daily reports from the police show that the number is operational.

The Buxton/Foulis Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) two Wednesdays took over full responsibility for twenty-four housing schemes, all of which have infrastructural work completed.

The construction of the Takutu Bridge is set for a mid-March 2008 completion and is said to be now 48% complete.

Kurupung residents are getting “clean and clear natural water” from a state-of-the-art artesian well which was recently dug at about 150 feet below ground.

A man who was allegedly found with a Beretta pistol along with seven bullets after he allegedly robbed a woman of money was on Monday remanded to prison by Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.

Magistrate Sherdell Isaacs granted a man his pre-trial freedom in the sum of $125,000 when he appeared before her at the Mahaicony Court on Monday, charged with two counts of robbery under arms.